June 1894

Articles

• American Railways and American Cities

  “The very existence of cities depends upon transportation, of which the railroad is the principal vehicle. It links the world together, abolishes at once national boundaries and national prejudices, and will produce universal brotherhood if anything can.”

  Henry J. Fletcher

• Philip and His Wife

  Margaret Deland

• A Summer in the Scillies

  J. William White

• The Gravedigger

  Bliss Carman

• The End of Tortoni's

  Stoddard Dewey

• Behind Hymettus: In Two Parts. Part Two

  J. Irving Manatt

• The Nooning Tree

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

• Ingonish, by Land and Sea

  Frank Bolles

• Hamburg's New Sanitary Impulse

  Albert Shaw

• Limitation

  John B. Tabb

• At the Opra Di Li Pupi

  Elisabeth Cavazza

• The Scope of the Normal School

  M. V. O’Shea

• Some Letters and Conversations of Thomas Carlyle

  Sir Edward Strachey

• Two Types of Piety

• A Poet's Dante

• Mr. Van Brunt's Greek Lines

• Comment on New Books

• A Reminiscence of the Kearsarge

• Nature and the Rich

• The Decline of the Amateur

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